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said recruiting officer shall conduct them, and in the mean time, from their enlistment till their review, shall have the same powers over them as if he were their proper commanding officer. For every man who shall be reviewed and received by the officer appointed for that purpose, the officer recruiting him, shall receive one hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid on certificate of such review, and receipt from the board of war to the auditors, and their warrant on the treasurer. The board of war shall cause accounts to be raised, with every county in which each shall have credit for the men so recruited by their officers and reviewed by the officer of review: And whensoever afterwards it shall become necessary for the publick exigencies to call for any greater number of regular troops than shall have been raised under this act, the number of all those raised under this act, shall be added to the number to be called for, and the quota of the aggregate number being settled for each county, in proportion to their militia; where it shall appear that any county has furnished under this act a number equal to such their quota, they shall not be subject to furnish any part of those then called for, and where they shall have furnished a part of such quota, they shall be subject to furnish so many, only of those as shall make up their deficiency; and for the greater security of the inhabitants of the Troop of ca. county of Illinois: Be it enacted, That one troop of valry for pro horse shall be raised, to consist of one captain, one tection of lieutenant, one cornet, and thirty two privates; the officers to be appointed by the governour with advice of council, and commissioned by the governour, and to receive the same pay, rations, and forage, as is allowed to the cavalry now in the continental service; and the horses, arms, and accoutrements, to be provided for them, in such manner as the governour with the advice of the council shall direct. Every soldier who enlisted into the corps of volunteers commanded by colonel George Rogers Clarke, and continued therein till the taking the several posts in the Illinois country, shall at the end of the war, be entitled to a grant of Land bounty two hundred acres of any unappropriated lands withtovolunteers in this commonwealth, on the terms herein before deunder colo- clared. Every able bodied freeman who shall enlist, nel George

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ces ordered for the protection and defence of the county of Illinois, shall receive a bounty of seven hundred and fifty dollars, and at the end of the war, shall be entitled to a grant of one hundred acres of land on the nois. And for the better determs herein before declared. fence of this commonwealth in the eastern quarter: Be Four troops it enacted, That four troops of horse shall be forthwith of cavalry raised, to be commanded by a major commandant, to frontier. be chosen by joint ballot of both houses of assembly, each troop to consist of thirty two privates, and commanded by one captain, one lieutenant, and one cornet, who shall be appointed by the governour with advice of council, and commissioned by the governour, and shall receive the same pay, rations, and forage, The as the cavalry now in the continental service. horses, arms, and accoutrements, to be provided at the publick expense. Every able bodied man who shall Land bounty enlist to serve during the war in the said troops, shall to those who enlist during be entitled to a bounty of seven hundred and fifty dollars, and at the end of the war shall be entitled to a bounty of one hundred acres of unappropriated lands on the terms herein before declared; and each able bodied man who shall enlist to serve two years, shall be entitled to a bounty of three hundred dollars. The bounties and other allowances given by this act to officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines, shall be deemed in lieu of those of the same kind given by any act of assembly, ordinance, or resolution of congress heretofore passed. And where the same shall have been given by any resolution of congress, shall go towards lessening the quota of such gift which ought to be contributed by this commonwealth.

the war.

CHAP. VII.

sed Bills of

[From Revi. An Act permitting those who will not take oaths to be otherwise qualified.

1779, chap, CXIX.

p. 83;

Chan Rev. p. 89.]

Solemnities

and forms instead of paths.

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That any person refusing to take an oath, and declaring religious scruples to be the true and only reason of such refusal, if he will use the solemnity and ceremony, and repeat the formulary observed on similar occasions, by those of the church or religious societies he professeth himself to be a member of, or to join in communion with, shall thereupon be deemed as competent a witness, or to be as duly qualified to execute an office, or perform any other act, to the sanction whereof an oath is or shall be required by law, and shall be subject to the same rules, derive the same advantages, or incur the same penalties or forfeitures, as if he had been sworn. In presentments, indictments, inquisitions, verdicts, examinations, or other forms, the words ❝ upon their oath" or "sworn" may be left out, and instead of them "in solemn form" or "charged” whichever may be adapted to the case, may be inserted; but if the antient form be adhered to, it shall not be adjudged errour.

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CHAP. VIII.

An Act for raising a body of Cavalry.

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That for Troop of ca- defence of the commonwealth, under the present invavalry to be raised, at dis- sion, it shall be lawful for the governour, with the adcretionof ex- vice of the council of state, to cause to be raised by ecutive, durvoluntary enlistments, so many troops of cavalry, as in ing existing Envasion. their judgments shall be requisite, to be formed and officered as they shall think best.

The officers and troopers shall receive such pay, rations, and forage, as are allowed and given to the cavalry of the United States, and to commence from the time of their rendezvous. They shall continue in service during the present invasion, unless sooner discharged by the governour and council. Each of the

said troopers shall bring his own horse into the service, and if such horse be killed, otherwise die, be captured, or lost during service, not through the default of the trooper; or if any arms or accoutrements, with which the trooper may furnish himself, be taken, injured, or lost, without his default, the same shall be paid for out of the publick treasury, at such price as shall be estimated by three indifferent persons, to be appointed and sworn by the commanding officer of the said cavalry, truly and impartially to value the same, according to the best evidence which they shall be able to procure. The said troopers during their service, shall be subject to the same rules and articles of discipline and government, to which the militia are subject when called into actual service,

CHAP. IX.

An Act for fixing the allowance of [Chan. Rev. the members of the General Assem- P. 90.1 bly.

WHEREAS it is just that the members of general Preambleassembly, delegated by the people to transact for them the legislative business, should, while attending that business, have their reasonable sustenance defrayed, dedicating to the publick service their time and labours, freely and without account; and it is also expedient that the publick councils should not be deprived of the aid of good and able men, who might be detered from entering into them, by the insufficiency of their private fortunes to bear the extraordinary expenses they must necessarily incur, and it being inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty, and contrary to the natural

rights of the other members of the society, that any body of men therein should have authority to enlarge their own powers, prerogatives or emoluments, without restraint: the said general assembly cannot at their own will increase the allowance which their members are to draw from the publick treasury for their expenses while in assembly, but to enable them so to do, an application to the body of the people has become necessary, and such application having been accordingly made to the several counties, and a majority of them having thereupon consented that the said allowance shall be enlarged, and authorized their members to enlarge the same for themselves, and the members of all future assemblies to fifty pounds of neat tobacco by the day for attendance on assembly, and two pounds of like tobacco for every mile they must necessarily travel going to or from the same, together with their ferriages, to be paid in money out of the publick treasury, at such rate as shall be estimated by the grand jury at the session of the general court next, before the meeting of every session of assembly, governing themselves in the said estimate by the worth of the said tobacco, and the competence of the same to defray the necessary expenses of travelling and attendance. Be Wages of members of it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, by exassembly, in press authority from the body of the people, that the tobacco,how allowance to the several members of the present, and estimated & of all future general assemblies, shall be of fifty pounds

paid.

of tobacco by the day for attendance on the said assemblies, two pounds of the like tobacco for every mile they must necessarily travel going to or from the same, together with their ferriages, to be paid to them in money out of the publick treasury, at such rate as shall be estimated by the grand jury at the session of the general court next, before the meeting of each respective session of assembly, governing themselves in the said estimate by the worth of the said tobacco, and the competence of the same to defray the necessary expen ses of travelling and attendance.

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